William Linn

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Husband William Linn ^{1 2}

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1 M William Linn, Jr. ^{1 2}

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           Born: 1722 - Ireland 1
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           Died: 16 Apr 1812 1 3
         Buried:  - Middle Spring Church

         Spouse: Susanna Trimble (      -1755) 1 3

         Spouse: Jane McCormick (      -      ) 4

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General Notes: Husband - William Linn

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The ancestor of this family, he emigrated from the north of Ireland, in 1732, and settled in Chester County, Pennsylvania. According to family tradition, his wife died in Ireland, and he brought with him an only son, William. They remained in Chester County but a few years, when, following the tide of emigration, they settled upon the frontiers of the Purchase of October, 1736, near what is now known as Roxbury, in Franklin County. The names of William Linn, senior, and William Linn, junior, appear on the assessment list of Lurgan township, Cumberland County, for the year 1751, one year after the erection of Cumberland County. Here William Linn, Sr., died, having nearly reached the one hundredth year of his age. His father fought on the side of "The Orange" at Boyne, July 1, 1690, and was said to have been in Captain Hugh Wilson's company, the first Irish officer who crossed the river. Hugh Wilson's son went to the "Irish Settlement;" the Greggs came to Chester County the same year the Linns came\emdash the descendants of these three soldiers of Boyne-water became kindred in 1869, when William H. Sage, of Ithaca, New York, was married to Jennie, daughter of Hon. Andrew Gregg Curtin.

He emigated from the North of Ireland in 1732, and settled, originally, in New Jersey, opposite Bristol, Pennsylvania. He was of Scotch-Irish stock, a man of giant frame and of immense muscular strength.

1 William Henry Egle, M.D., M.A., Pennsylvania Genealogies; Chiefly Scotch-Irish and German (Harrisburg, PA: Harrisburg Publishing Co., 1896), Pg 367.

2 Editor, Commemorative Biographical Record of Central Pennsylvania, Including the Counties of Centre, Clearfield, Jefferson and Clarion. (Chicago: J. H. Beers & Co., 1898), Pg 49.

3 Editor, Commemorative Biographical Record of Central Pennsylvania, Including the Counties of Centre, Clearfield, Jefferson and Clarion. (Chicago: J. H. Beers & Co., 1898), Pg 50.

4 William Henry Egle, M.D., M.A., Pennsylvania Genealogies; Chiefly Scotch-Irish and German (Harrisburg, PA: Harrisburg Publishing Co., 1896), Pg 368.